1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
Pan South African Language Board
1.8 Interesting Facts
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
1.9 Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
1.12.1 How Many Consonants
1.13 Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Latin
1.14 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
1.15 Hard to Learn
1.15.1 Language Levels
1.15.2 Time Taken to Learn
2 Greetings
2.1 Hello
2.2 Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
Ngiyabonga
2.3 How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
unjani
2.4 Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
okuhle ebusuku
2.5 Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
okuhle kusihlwa
2.6 Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
okuhle ntambama
2.7 Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
okuhle ekuseni
2.8 Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Ngiyacela
2.9 Sorry
2.10 Bye
2.11 I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
2.12 Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Uxolo
3 Dialects
3.1 Dialect 1
3.1.1 Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Gabon, South Africa
3.1.2 How Many People Speak
3.2 Dialect 2
Debar
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
3.2.1 Where They Speak
Macedonia
Georgia, South Africa
3.2.2 How Many People Speak
3.3 Dialect 3
3.3.1 Where They Speak
3.3.2 How Many People Speak
3.4 Total No. Of Dialects
4 How Many People Speak
4.1 How Many People Speak?
2.50 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
4.2 Speaking Population
4.3 Native Speakers
2.50 million12.00 million
0.13
873
4.3.1 Second Language Speakers
4.3.2 Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
isiZulu
4.3.3 Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
Isizulu, Zunda
4.3.4 French Name
4.3.5 German Name
4.4 Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Not Available
4.5 Ethnicity
5 History
5.1 Origin
5.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
5.2.1 Subgroup
5.2.2 Branch
5.3 Language Forms
5.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
5.3.2 Standard Forms
5.3.3 Language Position
5.3.4 Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
Not Available
5.4 Scope
6 Code
6.1 ISO 639 1
6.2 ISO 639 2
6.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
6.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
6.3 ISO 639 3
6.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
6.5 Glottocode
6.6 Linguasphere
6.7 Types of Language
6.7.1 Language Type
6.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
6.7.3 Language Morphological Typology